Don't Slam The Poetry Slam!

I tried not to respond but have failed. I shall avoid a debate about Arwulfs various claims about we grunting poets at the beer hall. I teach with a couple of knuckleheads such as himself' and have wearied of trying to combat them on a rational basis so I shant be trying to dissuade him. But that poetic calling which he and Ron Alien imply that they have received is evidently one mean-spirited and misinformed muse. Arwulf's attitude is radically ungenerous; his biases devalue his intelligence. I think I can perceive that vision of Art he seems to think he's in the service of but I can maintain no respect for what, in the plainest of terms, is mere bigotry. And if this is some poetic crusade he's embarked upon, he can feel free to have the last shot.

Loud White Male Francis

Ann Arbor Poetry Slam